First summer day in
almost a week,
and the seventh of the year at 75 or above
(just hitting the mark this day),
Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms: II for Dictation and Board Harmony, with multiple Common Tones. + videos of Pierre Boulez's Le Soleil des eaux and Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstuck IX.
Wonderful Student Compositions follow, part of Round 3, including those of Brandon Ng and
Josh Roofner --
beeline homeward past Martinez Railroad
and
Refinery
Hills,
Horse Farm and
The Suburbs,
Chinese
Wall,
Four-Tree
Hill, and the
North Lagoons to least begin catch-up grading (not entirely succeeding...yet),
returning
in
striking
evening
shadows
down
680 for
Music History, where we proceed from Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring to Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, via Joe Garland's In the Mood, John Cage's Sonata No. 5 and Water Walk (the What's My Line? episode), et al., gazing into a future of...
Two Classic Rock Progressions:
Please Mr. Postman:
C Am F G
G E C D
E C A B
C A F G
I vi IV V
Stairway to Heaven:
(Key Signature of 3 Flats -- Bb Eb Ab)
Cm Bb Ab
G F Eb
Eb D C
C Bb Ab
i bVII bVI
Three Typical Rock Bands:
Piano Band:
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums
Guitar Band:
Lead Guitar
Rhythm Guitar
Bass
Drums
Power Trio:
Guitar
Bass
Drums
Listening:
[8915] Willie Dixon - Hoochie Coochie Man
[8917- Dizzy Gillespie - Shaw 'Nuff
[8918] Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: Cool
[8925] Pierre Boulez - Le Marteau sans Maitre [The Masterless Hammer]: [I]
[8926] Chuck Berry - Maybellene
[8927] George Crumb - Black Angels
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Out thereafter with Owen and Doug -- first in three weeks -- then home for the improbable 20th letter of the Russian alphabet ("teh"),
Decameron - First Day: Novel VIII video, and piano-vocal score re DFD: Novel V.
